Business Rates
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Portas business rates remedy is too little too late
03 February 2012
It is no secret that our high streets are suffering: landlords know it, retailers know it and, of course, Mary Portas knows it.
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Threat of demolitions as experts tear into empty rates relief reform
21 October 2011
The scrapping of empty rates relief could have a dramatic impact on investment decisions and cause empty buildings to be demolished, industry experts warn.
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Government makes heavy weather of ‘simple’ business rates reform
7 October 2011
Businesses have another fortnight to respond to the government’s consultation on business rates retention, the system through which local councils will be rewarded for achieving growth
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Lipton to lead urban riot task force
7 October 2011
Sir Stuart Lipton and Julian Metcalfe, the entrepreneur behind Pret A Manger and Itsu, have been appointed to lead post-riot regeneration in Tottenham and Croydon
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CVS appoints eight to national ratings surveying team
28 September 2011
CVS, the business rates consultancy, has made eight appointments to its national rating surveying team.
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Labyrinthine business rates changes set to baffle councils
2 September 2011
Nobody said reforming the UK business rates system would be easy
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Empty ideas that save money
26 August 2011
Charities and landlords can reduce empty rates liabilities through meanwhile uses
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David Cameron offers £20m pot to riot-hit businesses
11 August 2011
David Cameron today outlined a list of measures to support businesses following the outbreak of riots across the country.
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Retailers ask David Cameron to support high street riot recovery
11 August 2011
Retailers have asked the prime minister to put in place actions to support the rebuilding of high streets wrecked by the riots of the past week when he addresses the House of Commons later this morning.
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David Cameron announces four new enterprise zones
28 July 2011
The government today announced the location of four new enterprise zones in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and Sheffield.
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"Local authorities must keep between 40% and 60% of business rates"
13 July 2011
Local authorities must be allowed to keep between 40% and 60% of business rates indefinitely if the UK is to get back on the path of sustainable economic growth, according to Centre for Cities.
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Rating changes will help councils attract more businesses, says Clegg
8 July 2011
The coalition wants a business rates system that encourages local authorities to compete with each other, but which is fair to all
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Show us the evidence and we will explain our reasons for valuation, says Paul Sanderson
1 July 2011
In an article last month, Jerry Schurder commented on the Valuation Office Agency’s approach to dealing with rating appeals
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Judgment gives councils final say over business rates list
17 June 2011
A judgment in the Lands Tribunal is good news for property developers that are burdened with rates bills on empty buildings they are developing
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Valuation Office Agency’s selective approach will lead to more tribunals, says Jerry Schurder
3 June 2011
The Valuation Office Agency’s (VOA) approach to the negotiation of appeals against the 2010 revaluation assessments is causing considerable concern
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Liberating our cities is the only way to grow, says Sir Stuart Lipton
27 May 2011
The City Finance Commission was established by Manchester, Birmingham and Central London Forward, on behalf of the central London boroughs, to feed into the government’s Local Government Resource Review
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Lipton commission tells government to set cities free
27 May 2011
The government is considering incentivising local authorities to give planning permission for commercial properties
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Lipton calls for more local authority business rates powers
23 May 2011
Sir Stuart Lipton has called on government to give local councils more power to set business rates in their area.
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Companies face hike in 2011/12 business rates
01 April 2011
Businesses in England and Wales face paying 4.6% more for business rates this year, a rating consultant has warned
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Squatters to be kicked out quicker
01 April 2011
New government plans could make it easier for homeowners and commercial property landlords to evict squatters
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Councils await new business rate regime
18 March 2011
Budget to clarify whether the government favours grants over retention
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Landlords rue hike in empty rates
25 February 2011
Rise in costs unavoidable for those with partially occupied sites
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Businesses are on tenterhooks as government reviews rates system, says Jerry Schurder
11 February 2011
By the time you read this article, the Department for Communities and Local Government should have commenced what is being called a “local government resource review”, but is actually a close look at certain aspects of the business rates system
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Gerald Eve on Heathrow flight path
11 February 2011
Heathrow airport has appointed Gerald Eve to advise on its business rates, in what is considered one of the largest rating assessments in the UK
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Boris to impose £300m infrastructure tax
17 January 2011
London mayor Boris Johnson is to impose a community infrastructure levy on development in the capital in a bid to raise up to £300m.
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Rates revocation not ‘off agenda’
07 January 2011
The government could reinstate business rates relief on empty property, communities minister Bob Neill has hinted
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Valuation Tribunal Service re-evaluates structure
05 November 2010
The service that deals with appeals to business rates bills has already been through significant change
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Retailers rally against business rate hikes
29 October 2010
The business rates of more than 50,000 occupiers in England will rise by a quarter next year ^23% after two rating changes
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Rating experts concerned over refurbished properties
1 October 2010
The Valuer’s Perspective
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Retailers warn of rates bombshell
21 September 2010
Retailers have warned they will be hit by a business rates bombshell later next April unless the government breaks the link between rates and the Retail Price Index.
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Retailers could claim conditional rebate
17 September 2010
How much is air conditioning in a shop worth? This is a question the Lands Tribunal is pondering in two cases, both of which focus on retail
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Q+A: port rates — is the battle won?
30 July 2010
At the end of May, emergency regulations were put in place to halt the demand of payments for backdated business rates for port occupiers
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Segro signs up Sainsbury’s for west London shed schemes
11 June 2010
REIT avoids empty rates liability by signing supermarket for ex-Woolworths shed inherited from Brixton
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Webcasts
4 June 2010
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Pickles reverses retro port rates bills
04 June 2010
Communities and Local Government secretary Eric Pickles introduced emergency regulations last week to put a halt on demands for “unfair” retrospective business rate payments that affect ports
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Cluttons wins NATS rating agency deal
28 May 2010
Cluttons has been appointed rating agent for NATS, the air traffic service provider.Cluttons won a competitive pitch to provide advice relating to NNDR (National Non domestic Rates – Business Rates) issues across NATS’ 120 communications towers as well as a number of offices, warehouses and training facilities across the UK.
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Crossrail levy net cast even wider
28 May 2010
Central London office developers’ proposed Crossrail levy contribution has been reduced from £160/sq m to £137/sq m but the levy area has been extended by the London mayor
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Empty rates worries at Business Centre Association conference
28 May 2010
Annual conference outlines how exemptions may be removed
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First Into Fashion: Eight months on
14 May 2010
How have the winners of a store in Connaught Village traded in their first six months?
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East Mids rating conundrum
7 May 2010
Sir, You reported that liabilities for sheds and offices in the east Midlands are likely to fall by 6% and 7% in the year from 1 April 2010 (professional, 26.03.10)
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What will the parties give you?
4 May 2010
It is two days to the most important and hotly contested election in nearly two decades, but what will the parties give the commercial property sector.
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How the main parties will tackle employment
30 April 2010
Richard Heap dissects the Labour, Tory and Lib Dem manifesto pledges on employment law
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Leader
London Supplement 2010
It is election time in London — but this one will go on for years
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Who gets property's vote?
30 April 2010
Christine Eade talks to property professionals from across the industry about how they will vote on 6 May
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PW LIVE: Healey criticises Tory localism "smoke-screen"
27 April 2010
Housing and planning minister John Healey has criticised the Conservative Party’s policy of “localism” as a vote-winning policy that would hamper housebuilding in the UK.
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People Moves: Women in Property, BCO and more
16 April 2010
16 April 2010
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Rates revaluation hits Scots and Welsh
16 April 2010
Large rises are not limited by the transitional relief that applies in England.
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New rates spell trouble
9 April 2010
Sir, I want to purchase a business in the London area that includes freehold property (Professional, 26.03.10)
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Professional opinion: Jerry Schurder
01 April 2010
Rating reform would be a property vote winner
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Tories and Lib Dems aim to end ports rating storm
01 April 2010
Both parties pledge support for occupiers in backdated rates bills row
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web of intrigue
01 April 2010
E-tailing has come of age. As more shoppers and retailers make the online migration, Hardeep Sandher investigates whether retail property will end up in the bargain bins
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Controversial 2010 rating revaluation bills loom
26 March 2010
Boom-time 2008 revaluation leads to regional disparity in rating burden
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Petrol bills to explode
26 March 2010
Fivefold increases to business rates bills are threatening to drive petrol stations out of business
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Probe into public rate relief cut
26 March 2010
Communities secretary John Denham has launched an investigation into the way the Lands Tribunal values public buildings such as museums, galleries and sports venues for rating purposes
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Budget 2010: What difference does it make?
25 March 2010
‘Vote for change,’ scream the Tory banners, with airbrushed-Dave peering down creepily like the ghost of Gareth Gates.‘The choice,’ we’re told, is of ‘five more ...
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Budget 2010: Small empty property rate relief extended
24 March 2010
The government has extended business rates relief for small empty properties for another year.
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Budget 2010: Darling to cut business rates
24 March 2010
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that he wants to cut business rates for one year from October.
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London businesses back council rates change
22 March 2010
Three quarters of London businesses say local authorities in the capital should be able to keep more of the money they raise in business rates.
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MIPIM ARCHIVE:No arguments over TIF at MIPIM
19 March 2010
Heavyweights agree that tax-increment financing could save regeneration
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What to know: The Budget
19 March 2010
Next Wednesday’s Budget is unlikely to favour the property industry
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BLOG: Cannes-do attitude
17 March 2010
Day two of Mipim-proper is slightly sorer than the first and it was good to see our national journalists staying out past 10.30pm after an embarrassing show saw everyone tucked up in bed far too early on Monday. Half of the Brits here dispersed to the local Irish pub to see Chelsea demolished but all the A-listers were dining at CBRE’s apartment.
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Business rates appeals on the rise
16 March 2010
The number of appeals against business rates has risen by 21% over the last two years, according to statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Conservative Approach
North West March 2010
Developers in the north-west are contemplating what life might be like if David Cameron were to win the impending general election
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Hundreds of petrol stations at risk from business rates
9 March 2010
Hundreds of petrol stations could be forced to close, following substantial increases in their business rates, it has been claimed.
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Need to know: Reducing business rates
05 March 2010
On 1 April, the 2010 business rates revaluation comes into effect
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Increased business rates could accelerate building dereliction says NB Real Estate
1 March 2010
Increases of more than 20% in business rates for some central London office locations this April could accelerate the demolition of empty buildings as landlords look to mitigate the cost of paying rates on empty properties, according to NB Real Estate.
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Busy as a B2
Sheds February 2010
Manufacturers are the unexpected benefactors of the depressed market
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Driving a hard bar gain
Sheds February 2010
Third-party logistics operators are being squeezed by their retail customers, so they are turning the screw on landlords
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Geneva still unconventional choice for UK occupiers
26 February 2010
There is no need to panic. Despite the government’s impending bonus taxes, an exodus of London’s best-known office occupiers to Geneva or elsewhere in Switzerland is unlikely, King Sturge’s latest report, The Facts Behind the Fuss, has found
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Savills pays Asda price for advice
Sheds February 2010
Colliers CRE and BNP Paribas Real Estate retender for logistics contract
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The Green Mile
23 February 2010
After more leaks than the Titanic and more false starts than a botched NASA mission, the Tories’ planning green paper is now out.It was with a thud as sloppy as a pair of Gordon Brown’s socks hitting a hapless aide in the face that the Conservatives’ planning green paper finally made its official appearance this afternoon. It limped onto the interweb without fuss or fanfare and after Property Week exclusively unveiled it weeks ago, it confirms pretty much everything you’ve probably ...
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The politics of property: Grant Shapps
19 February 2010
Raynsford got his figures wrong on Tory plans to fund housebuilding
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Find your way around Conservative planning ‘green paper’
12 February 2010
The Conservative Party was due to publish its “Green paper” on planning earlier this week.
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Need to know: Crossrail levy
12 February 2010
This April, London businesses will start to pay a tax to help fund rail scheme Crossrail
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Occupier View: Julian Lyon
12 February 2010
Rates revaluation needs re-evaluation
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A little local difficulty from Tory planning overhaul
5 February 2010
What should the property industry make of the Conservatives’ radical agenda for the planning system?
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Barrie blogs on pre-election debate
20 January 2010
The paint was almost peeling off the walls at the RICS’s newly-refurbished lecture theatre last night – as property’s election race got off to a rip-roaring start.Grant Shapps, the Conservative Housing spokesman, came under strong fire from a 100-strong audience of Property Week and Building readers in an event we organised with the RICS.As co-chair of the occasion with Building’s Housing & Regeneration Editor Joey Gardiner what struck me straight away was the passion and vigour ...
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Red Ken vs blue blood
11 December 2009
Just back from chairing the Movers & Shakers breakfast at the Dorchester, where panellists Ken Livingstone, Adrian Wyatt, Sir Bob Kerslake and Liz Peace did the 300-strong audience proud. Ken was on the best form of all – slating the Prince of Wales for intervening in Chelsea ...
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Core Cities Day Two: Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
4 November 2009
After the misery of Monday, day two of the Core Cities Summit is a bit brighter.One of the running jokes of the morning is how Sadiq Khan, the transport minister, managed to get into the centre of Liverpool without getting hit by a tram. “I’m glad Core Cities have hired Rory Bremner and Nick Clegg doing the entertainment,” he snipes, before reading a speech clearly put together by the work experience boy.Obviously Khan was too busy doing his expenses to come up with anything ...
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HOUSING IN A HALF-SHELL
6 October 2009
Having been up here since Saturday, I decided to take a break for briefing BBC producers on the virtues of the BPF’s buy-to-let mortgage regulation policy with a stroll to my favourite boutiques around Oldham Street on Sunday afternoon.Being a valued customer of one of these ...
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Only 2% of us trust bankers - still twice as many as trust estate agents.....
6 April 2009
As a lawyer you do become inured to all the unflattering lawyer jokes but it’s comforting to find that bankers and estate agents are now almost as popular as lawyers.Even so, the results of the recent survey by the Bar Standards Board are fairly astonishing. According to their survey only a meagre 1% of adults trust estate agents.Bankers are apparently almost as low in the public esteem with only 2% of adults trusting them. I haven’t enquired as to whether the public’s attitude ...
